Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
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Guys, we manged imposible: important person in 40k died with no regrets
Fuck yeah.
Lets burn something positive unto the warp!
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Eeeh, dunno about that. He had that one book he was hoping to read later that week.
[] In Bed.
Our man and his spouse deserve it. More than five centuries of work they deserve to go together, peacefully and happily.
@HeroCooky Are Teeln and Bnuy our first Saints?
Our man and his spouse deserve it. More than five centuries of work they deserve to go together, peacefully and happily.
@HeroCooky Are Teeln and Bnuy our first Saints?
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
So, we were told that Teeln was doing Heroic Things in the background to help keep the Faith glued together since we didn't have everything nailed down. Did we dodge a bullet by finishing all the Doctrine stuff before he passed on @HeroCooky ?
think we can chuck a copy into the warp towards the star child to give it to him?Eeeh, dunno about that. He had that one book he was hoping to read later that week.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Teeln, Prophet of the Star Child, is the First Priest of the Star Child as you know, and also the Prophet of the Star Child and founder of your entire religion.
Bnuy is a bnuy mutant woman that is also the First Hymnal and leader of the entire Choir part of your civilization.
Some.
But without a glue to hold everything together...well. Things are gonna get spicy!
Don't worry, that was a joke.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Blargh.
There goes my smile. God damnit, I hate this Great Man bullshit the setting runs on where absent a Hero nobody can do anything but suck.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Yeah, but this isn't Great Man Theory in effect; this is "Literal Jesus has been running the Christian Church for 5 Centuries and was there to answer any questions and is now dead" running the show.
People are gonna freak.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Fuck.
Well, I'll enjoy the fact he got his Good Ending anyway, even if we're going to be digging our way out of this crisis despite all of his work and ours all this time.
Council of Nicea 3: Space Religion is need I see, unless starchild gives us another space pope, Everqueen from fantasy style
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I imagine every remaining dogma question would be burning a hole in our backlog, with people more easily forming divergent opinions, putting a timer on our ability to set new doctrine without complications.
We'll possibly have a new Faith question on resolve how to deal with his death and potential new Prophets, and/or something to commemorate his life and death (a mausoleum or something grand).
Here's hoping there won't be schisms...
We'll possibly have a new Faith question on resolve how to deal with his death and potential new Prophets, and/or something to commemorate his life and death (a mausoleum or something grand).
Here's hoping there won't be schisms...
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Time to make a "Converse with Dead" chorus kek. But no in all seriousness it's not necessarily a bad thing in the longer term to not have our entire theological pining be bound to one man so to speak...though lord knows it's gonna be rough
Edit: Gonna need some ways to setting Theological debates somehow
Edit: Gonna need some ways to setting Theological debates somehow
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I mean, I'm sure he has regrets over what happened at Qualach's Forge and wished we committed to taking it rather than pulling out, but overall he did keep to his principles for the most part and led the growth of a so far successful interstellar polity.Eeeh, dunno about that. He had that one book he was hoping to read later that week.
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To be fair, that is Great Man Theory, just a great man whose greatness is written into and supported by the laws of physics of the universe.
Had Jesus lived to 500 in our universe, the Church would still have split. He might have gotten couped, even.
HeroCooky
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*Slaps the HeroCooky Inc. Approved(TM) Thunderdome*
"This bad boy can fit so many theological arguments in it!"
Fair. But it still is a major pillar of stability and certainty that has been ripped away, people will have a moment of "Oh Fuck," happening to them.
Not the succession/what replaced him tho. That has been handled in-universe long ago. Basically five people get elected by the combined clergy for fifty years to run an overseeing body to resolve disputes and mend frayed relations like Teeln did, with one of the five acting as the impartial tie-breaker amongst them when they are acting up.
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Well that's good to know at least.
Theres gonna bw one last great miracle. Will we have a choice in the matter? If we did, what would you guys vote for? The creation of a stable afterlife under the purview of the Star-child? The selection of a new head priest and hymnal? A living angel warp saint? Improving our societies resistance to chaos so theyre 90% resistant to minor powered stuff, and 50% resistant to major chaos stuff?
My interpretation here is that we effectively had a grace period where our religion behaved because our prophet was still alive. Hopefully everything we nailed down during that time (which is a lot!) is going to remain more or less stable going forward. But everything faith-related might be be harder going forward, maybe taking multiple actions or having smaller effects.
That being said, I expect this last miracle is going to be a doozy. One of the options might very well be 'your faith doesn't get harder' (probably the prayer one) and the other is probably equally tempting (upgrade to chaos resistance?) I'm looking forward to finding out!
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The creation of a stable afterlife. This so much. It's what I'm hoping we get from Bed. The fact that if you die you don't get tortured for all eternity or consigned to oblivion would provide much needed relief for many people. Like look how much problem the Eldari have, given they don't have a stable afterlife anymore.
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Writ the Eldar, Ynnead can provide protection for its followers. Seems to outright trump Slaanesh's claim even in its half-born state given that Drukhari that join the Ynnari stop feeling the Thirst from Slaanesh's draw on their souls.
So it is theoretically possible to create an afterlife for humans. That's going to take a lot of stuff going right though.